27th August 2017

[Chris Johnson]

A look at the range pools this morning produced just 70 Golden Plovers and 8 Dunlins.
South Loch Bee:
45 Curlews, 4 Redshanks, 37 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Snipes, 32 Lapwings.

 

[Hawkeye]

Ruhba Ardvule, South Uist
A 1.5 hour seawatch early this morning produced 2 Storm Petrels (S), 14 Fulmars (3S 11N), 1 Sooty Shearwater (S), 106 Manx Shearwaters (43S 63N), 143 Gannets (125S 17N), 43 Shag (16S 27N), 1 Kittiwake (S), 1 Guillemot (S) and 2 Razorbills (S).

 

[BrianR]

Eight Black-tailed Godwits and a Glaucous Gull were at Loch Sandary, North Uist in the early afternoon.

 

[MisterT]

Looking around South Uist today, the were at least 15 Ruff at Loch Bornish (11 seen together) although there may have been more. Black-tailed Godwits were not obvious until the loudest bird scarer that I have heard went off and put up 3 groups totalling 68 along with 40+ Golden Plover and 30+ Snipe. There was no sign of the Pectoral Sandpiper that was seen yesterday.

Kildonan was the place for Black-tailed Godwits today with a count of 336 ( 4 groups of 96, 32, 21 and 187). 9 Ruff including an adult male were also around the loch and a dog flushed 80+ Snipe from the Glas Roe area.

At Askernish, there were 4 Black-tailed Godwits and 4 Ruff near the club house and the fields at Boisdale were mainly occupied by gulls, there being 200+ Common Gulls with 30+ Curlew and 50+ Twite amongst them.


Some of the Godwits at Kildonan & Common Gull, Boisdale